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discussed in biography

...into three divisions: the
Polemon (
De bellis; Wars), in eight books;
Peri Ktismaton (
De aedificiis; Buildings), in six books; and the
Anecdota (
Historia arcana; Secret History), published posthumously.

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Belisarius

In Procopius’
Secret History (
Historia arcana), Belisarius is given the least unfavourable treatment of the age’s leading personalities. His reputation endured for centuries, and later legends, often mixed with stories about others, developed about him. The most famous had him actually blinded by Justinian and forced to beg in the streets in his old age. The 18th-century French...

Theodora

Little is known of Theodora’s early life, but a combination of the official version with that found in the highly coloured
Secret History of Procopius of Caesarea probably provides the best explanation. Her father, Acacius, was a bear keeper at the Hippodrome (circus) in Constantinople. Procopius says that she became an actress and prostitute while still young, leading an...